Just wanted to see if I could compile a simple console program and
to my surprise I was able to.  The only problem is every time I execute it,
nothing happens.  There should be some output to the console, but non shows
up.  To compile the app I use "g++ -Wall test.cc -o test".  

I've generally used "gcc" to compile, but that line looks okay to me. 
The catch is that if there are no errors and nothing to warn you about,
you *won't* see any output.  One idea - stick a few gremlins in your
sourcecode. Misspell a few functions, add a couple extra opening braces,
a few undefined symbols, etc.

/I used to use
/makefile on a Unix box a school, but for the life of me I can't remember
/how to write the nakefile and the man pages only refer to a Tutorial for
/that.  Any ideas?

Here's an HTML manual for make:

http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/COMP/info/make/make_toc.html

You can also download a copy from http://www.gnu.org.  Or, try "info
make".  Or, in emacs, try "M-x info" ahen following the reference to
make.  (Emacs info reader is a little friendlier than the command line
equivalent).

the general makefile format is:

<target>:	<depencecny list>
	<commands>

For your example above (I'll add another source file though to try
making it a better example), Given 3 files -- test.c, otherfile.c, and
test.h --you might have something like (here, I'm not making use of
implicit rules).


CC =	gcc       # variable for the name of the compiler
CFLAGS = -g -Wall # flags for the compiler.  Warnings and syms.

test	:	test.c otherfile.c
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) test.o otherfile.o -o test

test.o	:	test.c test.h
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c test.c
	                   
otherfile.o :	otherfile.c test.h
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c  otherfile.c

.PHONY: clean

clean:
	rm *.o


(.PHONY designates the target "clean" as one that doesn't have any file
dependencies -- all it does is blow up up old object code.  But the
phony spec keeps clean from breaking if you you were to ever have a file
in that directory named "clean").                                

gcc -M will generate a ready-made dependency list for you. Something
like:

	gcc -M otherfile.c test.c -o test